TOKIO PREDICTS INVASION

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23257, 19 July 1945, Page 5

TOKIO PREDICTS INVASION

Decisive Battle Of Homeland Strength Conserved Bv Telegraph—N.Z Press Assn.—Copyright (7.30 D.m.) NEW YORK. July 17. Repeating invasion warnings, the Tokio radio predicted early landings on Japan and declared: “The Homeland battle is the decisive battle of all decisive battles.’’ The radio, quoting Domei News Agency, recalled Japan’s naval victory over Russia, on August 4. 1904, and I added: “Our forces are waiting for the 1 decisive moment to smash the enemy I beyond his ability to recover with one deadly stroke. Our crack army and naval forces are not permitting these enemy activities without counter | strategy for that decisive moment of the battle. It is vitally necessary that we conserve our strength and strike with lightning effect. We must not I move until the time is ripe. We must I not play into the enemy’s hands.” [ The Tokio radio quoted the J newspaper “Yomuiri Hochi” as stating: “Japan will be compelled to surrender unless the war leaders take a realistic view of the world situation and abandon hopes of victory through a split among the T'nited Nations, which is merely a political superstition akin to Germany’s fatal blunder oi plunging into a two-front war.” Replying to a recent article by ■ Admiral W. F. Halsey, who advocated I the elimination of the Japanese mill- ' tary clique and Shintoism, the “Nippon i Times” states: “The effacement of* Shintoism means the effacement of the Japanese race, and that is what I Americans like Admiral Halsey are ' threatening.”